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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Live across the Great Lake State. You are connected to
Michigan's most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's
Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross,
Blue Shield Michigan and Blue Care Network.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey to be on the show with a great friend
like you.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Michael Patrick You're such a good man.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I call him quite frequently.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I just want to let you know that I really
appreciate you. Continued exemplar who working on the radio with
a treat to listen to your show every morning.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Michael Patrick she goes, has all the native charm of
his Irish background, and now that he's got himself and
on his job, there's no holding him.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Michael Patrick shield is on the air.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Good Morning World, on the air and in the air
about twenty five stories over Las Vegas in the wee
small hours of the morning and as I understand it.
Jeff Gilbert has been nice enough to join us also
in the wee small hours in the wild West for
the Los Angeles Auto Show. We're here for the Formula
one race right down the Las Vegas Strip between all
(01:25):
the Neon Tony kupport as the Formula One fan who
brought us here for the coverage. And isn't it unusual?
I mean, I think it is. You got to do
it yesterday, to drive down the strip during the day
in a taxi or in your own car, and then
they clear it out and these millions of dollars worth
of hardware comes rolling down there.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, it's super cool. And that's the strait that we
were talking about earlier where these cars reach maximum speed.
And that was one of the big items when they
decided to put this race here, was we got to
keep these public streets open. We can't just shut it
down for the whole weekend. So we saw yesterday and
the best part about it was we did get that
driver to open it up just a tad. I mean,
(02:06):
I give him credit.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
The Ethiopian taxi driver. We said, come on, punch it
a little bit, and he did. Jeff Gilbert knows that
power is kind of what it's about, but its style
and form follows function in the automotive world. And are
you really in Los Angeles and awake at the wee
dark hour right now?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah? But my body is still on Michigan time. I
was asleep by seven pm last night local time. That's
a nice thing here is the sun goes down early
for this show, so I can keep my body on
Eastern time. And by the way, I once did the
Las Vegas Strip in a vin Fast vehicle. Is that
impressive or not? A Vietnamese made car.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
I didn't even know there was such a thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They were a startup that's trying to get traction in
the US. Hasn't really worked so well for them, but
they had them at Cees one year and they were
using them as shuttles and we went up and down
the strip on at not quite Formula one speed.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
So that is not going to win the North American
Car and Truck of the Year award. I don't think
it sounds like. Okay, Hey, so maam wy if you
went to bed at seven, you didn't stay up and
watch the practice sessions for F one on ESPN last.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Night, I am sorry. I did not.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
We're gonna take away your your geek status card. Do
you actually have a life? Where do they put you
in a Los Angeles? Are you at the Beverly Hills
Hotel or the Beverly Hilton, the Beverly Wilshire. Where are
you hanging out?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I actually put myself in Los Angeles and I got
a good deal at the JW. Marriott, which is in
walking walking distance of the convention center, because this is
for a North American Car Truck of the Year and
I was going there at their behalf, so they're the
one picking up the check.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
You're gonna make the announcement. That was kind of because
you could have insisted on the Ritz Carlton next door,
but you didn't.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I'm the president. I've got to approve the budget, so
I got to keep it reasonable.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Well, we're going to get the Detroit Auto Show in
the winter again and there are going to be announcements
there and some reveals I guess by the Ford Motor
Company about their return to F one racing and Cadillac two.
We're going to meet a fella to night called Mark Rushbrook,
who is the director of Global Racing for Ford. I
don't know if you know him or not, but I
guess he started his life on a tractor and a
(04:34):
farm and he ended up being a Ford executive.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, and I actually did talk to him about that
event that they're having at the auto show where they're
going to be talking about all of their racing. They decided,
since they've got to beautifully restored Michigan Central Station, that
will be something. I mean, it's invitation only, but it'll
be streamed and you're right, that'll be talking about Formula one, Laman,
all their racing teams.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Is he Funfeller? Are we gonna have a good time
with him?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I think so. I've talked to him the exact number
of times that you're going to once, so hey, you know,
the guy heads. If a guy heads a race team,
he's not going to.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Be dull, okay, excellent. Well, and by the time we
get to him, it'll be the practice or the qualifying
Tony tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I think it's just it's rate when the qualifying starts,
so he's dipping out of.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
That lots of champagne by then, so it'll be not
for him, for us, that's Formula one. Now you are
going to make some announcements in Los Angeles. It's already
made them yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yep. So so there's no secrets here I can tell
you about him.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
The embargo has lifted, Please break.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The margo head lifted. Yep. We've got North American Car
Truck Utility of the Year finalists very quickly, because then
you're probably tied on time, Carlman. Your finalists, okay, then
I can expand no car current. Your finalists are the
Dodge Charger hon to Prelude and the Nissan Leaf. Truck
of the year. Two Rams, the one with a Hemi
(06:01):
and the RAM twenty five hundred heavy duty, as well
as the Ford Maverick Lobo, which is kind of a
low rider version of the small Maverick. And for Utility
of the Year, you have got the Hondai Palisade, the
Lucid Gravity that's an EV startup, and the Nissan Leaf.
So you've got two people, two companies with multiple vehicles,
(06:23):
Ram and Nissan.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
The cars you mentioned in the first category seem very
very diverse. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, that's what we like is you know, we we
have points to give, we've got to spread them out.
So yeah, you've got the Charger, which is both an
EV version and a V six version, but the V
six gets as much as the V eight. You've got
the Leaf, which I'm gonna sorry, Leaf is utility. You've
got the CenTra, which is a very nice small car,
(06:50):
very nice compact car, and the Honda Prelude, which is
a small sporting car.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Now, mister Gilbert, this is Tony. I'm gonna shift back
to the Ford more or company. H The story of
Jim Farley is fascinating to me. I've been doing light
reading on him, but he himself he's a race car driver.
Do I have this correct as the CEO?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely. In fact, they had to make a
deal when he became CEO to allow him to continue
racing because some of the other people at Ford were saying, hey, look,
we're investing a lot of money in a CEO. We
don't want to see him, you know, get hurt or
even worse on a racetrack. But his argument is this
helps me understand the product. So yeah, Jim Farley is
(07:32):
a fascinating guy, and a lot of us who are
auto reporters go way back with him because he was
a Toyota executive for years and we got to know
him there, and then he came into Ford with marketing,
which is one of the areas that is very forward
facing to the media, and worked his way up to
the top job.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
That's what they did. When you went to WWJ, right,
you said, I still want to do riding drives and
they couldn't figure out how to ensure.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
You exactly, And no, I, as far as racing goes,
I have retired from that area. I did a Neon
challenge once, remember that at the Detroit Grand Prix where
we all drove around in these little Dodge Neons.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Did you win?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Finished? I finished dead last And the three last place
finishers were Benning Napoleon to an Ontov police chief, Mary
Conway Channel seven and me so who has seen more
crashes than two reporters in a cop.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
The man who writes and talks with style and a
plumb is up early in Los Angeles at the LA
Auto Show, just about a four and a half hour
drive from here, although if you were in enough one
car you can make that drive a lot faster. Tony
Cuthbert is here, Michael Patrick Shields, thank you, mister Gilbert,
and we'll hold on with anticipation to see who wins
(08:54):
those awards at the Detroit Auto Show coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Are you sick and tired of being tired and sick?
If so, Wycoff Wellness is your medical center for advanced,
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This is doctor John Wycoff. I'm a Board certified family physician,
but early in my career I was frustrated with the
conventional medical approach that seldom found the cause of chronic
health issues. Issues like fatigue, insomnia, hormone imbalance, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, anxiety, depression,
(09:26):
add were typically treated with more medications, oftentimes several medications
that seldom resulted in a good outcome. The adage we
have a pill for every ill certainly fits the typical
approach to chronic disease. If you want a different, unique approach,
see me at Wycoff Wellness Center in East Lansing. I
have a larger toolbox. I'll find the solution. Call me
(09:49):
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website at Wycoff Wellness dot com. Wycoff Wellness. Our results
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Speaker 5 (10:00):
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favorite theme park, relaxing beach time, a golf trip, or
just feeling the sun on your face. Breeze Airways as
you covered with convenient non stop flights from Lansing's Capital
Region International Airport to sunny Orlando and Fort Myers. Travel
with these by visiting Flybreeze dot com or by downloading
(10:23):
the Breeze app Fly Lancing on Breeze Airways seriously nice.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
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energy systems we all rely on.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
That's exactly what Enbridge is doing, investing in the energy
systems that help keep energy reliable and affordable for Michigan
families and businesses today and tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
So it's about keeping Michigan's energy moving exactly.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Smart investments help keep energy secure and affordable for everyone.
Learn more at Enbridge dot com slash Michigan. Enbridge Tomorrow
is on
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Da
Live across the Great Lake State. You are connected to
Michigan's most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's
Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross,
Blue Shield Michigan and Blue Care Network.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hey to be on the show with a great friend
like you.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Michael Patrick You're such a good man.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I call him quite frequently.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I just want to let you know that I really
appreciate you. Continued exemplar who working on the radio with
a treat to listen to your show every morning.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Michael Patrick she goes, has all the native charm of
his Irish background, and now that he's got himself and
on his job, there's no holding him.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Michael Patrick shield is on the air.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Good Morning World, on the air and in the air
about twenty five stories over Las Vegas in the wee
small hours of the morning and as I understand it.
Jeff Gilbert has been nice enough to join us also
in the wee small hours in the wild West for
the Los Angeles Auto Show. We're here for the Formula
one race right down the Las Vegas Strip between all
(01:25):
the Neon Tony kupport as the Formula One fan who
brought us here for the coverage. And isn't it unusual?
I mean, I think it is. You got to do
it yesterday, to drive down the strip during the day
in a taxi or in your own car, and then
they clear it out and these millions of dollars worth
of hardware comes rolling down there.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, it's super cool. And that's the strait that we
were talking about earlier where these cars reach maximum speed.
And that was one of the big items when they
decided to put this race here, was we got to
keep these public streets open. We can't just shut it
down for the whole weekend. So we saw yesterday and
the best part about it was we did get that
driver to open it up just a tad. I mean,
(02:06):
I give him credit.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
The Ethiopian taxi driver. We said, come on, punch it
a little bit, and he did. Jeff Gilbert knows that
power is kind of what it's about, but its style
and form follows function in the automotive world. And are
you really in Los Angeles and awake at the wee
dark hour right now?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah? But my body is still on Michigan time. I
was asleep by seven pm last night local time. That's
a nice thing here is the sun goes down early
for this show, so I can keep my body on
Eastern time. And by the way, I once did the
Las Vegas Strip in a vin Fast vehicle. Is that
impressive or not? A Vietnamese made car.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
I didn't even know there was such a thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They were a startup that's trying to get traction in
the US. Hasn't really worked so well for them, but
they had them at Cees one year and they were
using them as shuttles and we went up and down
the strip on at not quite Formula one speed.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
So that is not going to win the North American
Car and Truck of the Year award. I don't think
it sounds like. Okay, Hey, so maam wy if you
went to bed at seven, you didn't stay up and
watch the practice sessions for F one on ESPN last.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Night, I am sorry. I did not.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
We're gonna take away your your geek status card. Do
you actually have a life? Where do they put you
in a Los Angeles? Are you at the Beverly Hills
Hotel or the Beverly Hilton, the Beverly Wilshire. Where are
you hanging out?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I actually put myself in Los Angeles and I got
a good deal at the JW. Marriott, which is in
walking walking distance of the convention center, because this is
for a North American Car Truck of the Year and
I was going there at their behalf, so they're the
one picking up the check.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
You're gonna make the announcement. That was kind of because
you could have insisted on the Ritz Carlton next door,
but you didn't.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I'm the president. I've got to approve the budget, so
I got to keep it reasonable.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Well, we're going to get the Detroit Auto Show in
the winter again and there are going to be announcements
there and some reveals I guess by the Ford Motor
Company about their return to F one racing and Cadillac two.
We're going to meet a fella to night called Mark Rushbrook,
who is the director of Global Racing for Ford. I
don't know if you know him or not, but I
guess he started his life on a tractor and a
(04:34):
farm and he ended up being a Ford executive.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, and I actually did talk to him about that
event that they're having at the auto show where they're
going to be talking about all of their racing. They decided,
since they've got to beautifully restored Michigan Central Station, that
will be something. I mean, it's invitation only, but it'll
be streamed and you're right, that'll be talking about Formula one, Laman,
all their racing teams.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Is he Funfeller? Are we gonna have a good time
with him?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I think so. I've talked to him the exact number
of times that you're going to once, so hey, you know,
the guy heads. If a guy heads a race team,
he's not going to.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Be dull, okay, excellent. Well, and by the time we
get to him, it'll be the practice or the qualifying
Tony tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I think it's just it's rate when the qualifying starts,
so he's dipping out of.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
That lots of champagne by then, so it'll be not
for him, for us, that's Formula one. Now you are
going to make some announcements in Los Angeles. It's already
made them yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yep. So so there's no secrets here I can tell
you about him.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
The embargo has lifted, Please break.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The margo head lifted. Yep. We've got North American Car
Truck Utility of the Year finalists very quickly, because then
you're probably tied on time, Carlman. Your finalists, okay, then
I can expand no car current. Your finalists are the
Dodge Charger hon to Prelude and the Nissan Leaf. Truck
of the year. Two Rams, the one with a Hemi
(06:01):
and the RAM twenty five hundred heavy duty, as well
as the Ford Maverick Lobo, which is kind of a
low rider version of the small Maverick. And for Utility
of the Year, you have got the Hondai Palisade, the
Lucid Gravity that's an EV startup, and the Nissan Leaf.
So you've got two people, two companies with multiple vehicles,
(06:23):
Ram and Nissan.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
The cars you mentioned in the first category seem very
very diverse. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, that's what we like is you know, we we
have points to give, we've got to spread them out.
So yeah, you've got the Charger, which is both an
EV version and a V six version, but the V
six gets as much as the V eight. You've got
the Leaf, which I'm gonna sorry, Leaf is utility. You've
got the CenTra, which is a very nice small car,
(06:50):
very nice compact car, and the Honda Prelude, which is
a small sporting car.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Now, mister Gilbert, this is Tony. I'm gonna shift back
to the Ford more or company. H The story of
Jim Farley is fascinating to me. I've been doing light
reading on him, but he himself he's a race car driver.
Do I have this correct as the CEO?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely. In fact, they had to make a
deal when he became CEO to allow him to continue
racing because some of the other people at Ford were saying, hey, look,
we're investing a lot of money in a CEO. We
don't want to see him, you know, get hurt or
even worse on a racetrack. But his argument is this
helps me understand the product. So yeah, Jim Farley is
(07:32):
a fascinating guy, and a lot of us who are
auto reporters go way back with him because he was
a Toyota executive for years and we got to know
him there, and then he came into Ford with marketing,
which is one of the areas that is very forward
facing to the media, and worked his way up to
the top job.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
That's what they did. When you went to WWJ, right,
you said, I still want to do riding drives and
they couldn't figure out how to ensure.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
You exactly, And no, I, as far as racing goes,
I have retired from that area. I did a Neon
challenge once, remember that at the Detroit Grand Prix where
we all drove around in these little Dodge Neons.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Did you win?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Finished? I finished dead last And the three last place
finishers were Benning Napoleon to an Ontov police chief, Mary
Conway Channel seven and me so who has seen more
crashes than two reporters in a cop.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
The man who writes and talks with style and a
plumb is up early in Los Angeles at the LA
Auto Show, just about a four and a half hour
drive from here, although if you were in enough one
car you can make that drive a lot faster. Tony
Cuthbert is here, Michael Patrick Shields, thank you, mister Gilbert,
and we'll hold on with anticipation to see who wins
(08:54):
those awards at the Detroit Auto Show coming up.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Are you sick and tired of being tired and sick?
If so, Wycoff Wellness is your medical center for advanced,
functional and integrated medicine, and we may have a solution.
This is doctor John Wycoff. I'm a Board certified family physician,
but early in my career I was frustrated with the
conventional medical approach that seldom found the cause of chronic
health issues. Issues like fatigue, insomnia, hormone imbalance, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, anxiety, depression,
(09:26):
add were typically treated with more medications, oftentimes several medications
that seldom resulted in a good outcome. The adage we
have a pill for every ill certainly fits the typical
approach to chronic disease. If you want a different, unique approach,
see me at Wycoff Wellness Center in East Lansing. I
have a larger toolbox. I'll find the solution. Call me
(09:49):
at five one seven three three three seventy two seventy
three three three seven two seven zero or visit our
website at Wycoff Wellness dot com. Wycoff Wellness. Our results
can change your life.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Looking for your next sunny getaway, whether it's to your
favorite theme park, relaxing beach time, a golf trip, or
just feeling the sun on your face. Breeze Airways as
you covered with convenient non stop flights from Lansing's Capital
Region International Airport to sunny Orlando and Fort Myers. Travel
with these by visiting Flybreeze dot com or by downloading
(10:23):
the Breeze app Fly Lancing on Breeze Airways seriously nice.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
We're always upgrading phones, cars, tech, but what about the
energy systems we all rely on.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
That's exactly what Enbridge is doing, investing in the energy
systems that help keep energy reliable and affordable for Michigan
families and businesses today and tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
So it's about keeping Michigan's energy moving exactly.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Smart investments help keep energy secure and affordable for everyone.
Learn more at Enbridge dot com slash Michigan. Enbridge Tomorrow
is on
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Da
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